Improvement in horseshoes



Patented May 4,1875

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THOMAS SKELTON, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSESHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 162,862, dated May 4, 1875; application filed April 9, 1874.

horseshoe having removable calks, and certain details of construction that are advantageous and consistsin certain improvements, as more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the said drawing, A is the foundation of the shoe. The callrs, toe, and heel B G O are made with a cavity, M, into which is introduced malleable iron, before it is annealed, as a wearing surface. These calks have screws F F G, to fasten them to the shoe, and between the heel-calks O and the shoe I introduce a rubber washer, K. Two projections or studs, D D,'are raised upon the lower side or bottom of the shoe, and the heel-calks have recesses ff fitting around them, so as to brace and strengthen them. From the studs D D, running forward toward the toe, are two ribs, E, which terminate, so that recesses b b of the toe-call: fit around the extremities, and

the toe-call; is braced.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The shoe A, provided with the rib E and enlargements D, in combination with the removable calks, constructed and applied as described.

THOMAS SKELTON.

Witnesses:

J. B. SMITH, Q. A. OLIVER. 

